{"id":166,"date":"2018-03-22T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/?p=166"},"modified":"2018-03-22T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:39:46","slug":"lucea-spinelli-light-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d18\/2018\/03\/22\/lucea-spinelli-light-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCEA SPINELLI – Light Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucea Spinelli is a New York-based photographer who was born in Italy in 1987.\u00a0 Both of her parents were commercial photographers and had been taking photos ever since she was young. However, she didn’t go to school to study photography, but for\u00a0philosophy and politics instead.\u00a0 Yet, this influenced her artwork and\u00a0says her studies gave her, \u201ca language to understand the different realms of our perception, and question the objective nature of reality.\u201d\u00a0Spinelli likes to capture things that wouldn’t appear in reality but would appear in only someone’s imagination. She often refers to the light as “spirit portals” and creates images influenced by early\u00a0\u201cspirit photographers,\u201d such as\u00a0William Mumler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0William Hope.<\/a>\"8L4A5847_2.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

To capture these magical images, Spinelli uses the technique of long exposure\u00a0photography. By leaving the shutter open on a camera, it captures\u00a0any movement\u00a0of light over a long period of time, making any source\u00a0of light\u00a0act as a paintbrush. She got this idea by taking a photo by mistake of her going up her stairs with the shutter open and captured all the light trailing behind her. She said the light looked like they were walking up the stairs on their own and loved the idea of bringing light to life.<\/p>\n

\"LSHotelStitch_finalRi_14.jpg\"She used many sources of light for her photos such as\u00a0battery powered fairy lights, pen lights, submersible lights, flashlights, and mirrors. But the most important part of creating her pieces is the background lighting. There needs to be dim ambient light, such as the moon or a streetlight, to illuminate the surroundings. Because these photos were made in such\u00a0dim lighting, it was very difficult for her to see what she was doing. It required a lot of rhythmic movement and precise planning of each gesture that needed to be made to get the image she wanted.<\/p>\n

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Spinelli created a series of images that combined photography, moving art, and philosophy.\u00a0The name\u00a0Photosgraph\u00e9 comes from the Greek word “light drawing,” yet she not only wanted just one drawing but an animation to give the light a mind of its own. Furthermore, she explains in an interview with Architectural Digest that she creates these animations because it “brings her accidents to life”. In one singular light photo, there could be a mistake, making the artist having to retake the whole photo. Yet with Spinelli’s animations, it allows her mistakes to be intergraded in her work and create such mystical animations.<\/p>\n

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Lucea Spinelli is a New York-based photographer who was born in Italy in 1987.\u00a0 Both of her parents were commercial photographers and had been taking photos ever since she was young. However, she didn’t go to school to study photography, but for\u00a0philosophy and politics instead.\u00a0 Yet, this influenced her artwork and\u00a0says her studies gave her, … <\/p>\n

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